CRS: A Summary of Fusion Centers: Core Issues and Options for Congress, September 19, 2007

From WikiLeaks

The CRS is a Congressional "think tank" with a staff of around 700. Reports are commissioned by members of Congress on topics relevant to current political events. Despite CRS costs to the tax payer of over $100M a year, its electronic archives are, as a matter of policy, not made available to the public.

Individual members of Congress will release specific CRS reports if they believe it to assist them politically, but CRS archives as a whole are firewalled from public access.

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This report summarizes the main points of CRS Report RL34070, Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress, by Todd Masse, Siobhan O'Neil, and John Rollins. It highlights the value proposition of such centers, as well as the obstacles and risks they face. All of the information provided herein is provided in greater detail in the original report.